Stress Management Diary

Keeping your job can be just as stressful as losing your job it seems. Personnel Today reported in March that employees increasingly seek help for anxiety, depression, stress and addiction-related issues. The Priory, the UK’s most famous rehab centre, has witnessed a 20% increase in inquiries over the last six months, while Capio Nightingale Hospital, London’s only independent mental-health hospital, has seen a 200% rise in treatment inquiries between July and September 2008. A survey by Coventry University and the Work Life Balance Centre found stress was rife among workers nationwide, with 62% of employees feeling their workload has increased in the past year, and almost one-third feeling ‘out of control’ in their jobs. This led to a rise in absenteeism in the past year, with 58% of the days lost being attributed to stress-related factors.